The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
Spiritual reflection to start the day with Rev Dr Ian Bradley of the University of St Andrews.
A drop in the value of dairy commodities on one of the international trading platforms will be exactly the news that dairy farmers don't want to hear. The last Global Dairy Trade Auction saw an overall decrease of ten per cent, but Luke Crossman, a senior analyst at the industry body DairyCo, tells Charlotte Smith that it may not be a cause for immediate alarm.
With food tourism on the rise, Ben Jackson hears about new attempts to get the growing band of foodie tourists onto farms, and turn them into customers.
And what image springs to mind, if you hear the word 'farmer'? If it's a middle-aged man leaning on a gate, you may be out of date. Charlotte Smith hears from one of the young farmers who are helping to prove the stereotype wrong. Twenty-six year old Lindsay Martin is a farmer in Kent. She talks about the challenges and opportunities for young people starting out in agriculture.
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Kate Humble presents the meadow pipit. No-one would give the meadow pipit any prizes in a beauty competition but this small streaky bird has its own charm, as it bustles through the turf with a jerky motion. If you're hiking across the moor it will rise ahead of you, dither in mid-air and then dart off, buffeted by the spring breeze.
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
As a young woman, Stephanie Shirley worked at the Dollis Hill Research Station building computers from scratch: but she told young admirers that she worked for the Post Office, hoping they would think she sold stamps. In the early 60s she changed her name to Steve and started selling computer programmes to companies who had no idea what they were or what they could do, employing only mothers who worked from home writing code by hand with pen and pencil and then posted it to her. By the mid-80s her software company employed eight thousand people, still mainly women with children. She made an absolute fortune but these days Stephanie thinks less about making money and much more about how best to give it away.
Christina Lamb is an author and foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times and in this series of One to One she explores family legacies.
In the final of her three programmes, she explores what it's like to grow up the son or daughter of someone regarded as one of the most evil people on earth. And what happens if you are not aware of that legacy - how do you come to terms with it ?
Few people are seen as more of a byword for barbarity than Idi Amin, the Ugandan despot whose regime killed as many as 400,000 people when he was President from 1971 to 1979.
Christina Lamb talks to Lady Khadija Idi Amin dada, born in Saudi Arabia where her father was living in exile until he died. She tells Christina about her childhood and not being aware of her father's brutal legacy.
Lewis Carroll develops the story and finds a publisher for his fairy-tale about a little girl called Alice. Now all he needs is a suitable title for the book.
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage – a shortcut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years.
But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. The story of Charles Dodgson the quiet academic, and his second self Lewis Carroll – storyteller, innovator and avid collector of child-friends. And also of his dream-child Alice Liddell, and the fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up.
This is their secret history - one of love and loss, of innocence and ambiguity, and of one man's need to make Wonderland his refuge in a rapidly changing world.
Drawing on previously unpublished material, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst traces the creation and influence of the Alice books against a shifting cultural landscape – the birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood and sexuality, and the tensions inherent in the transition between the Victorian and modern worlds.
It's the centenary of Billie Holiday's birth. Author, Julia Blackburn and singer, Rebecca Ferguson talk about her legacy; How long should you mourn the end of a relationship; Author, Renee Knight and her new novel 'Disclaimer'; Challenging sexism at University;
Third series of the drama about Caterina Riccardi, a beautiful, privileged wife and mother, and set in modern day Naples - vibrant, picaresque and, for some, terrifying - where the Camorra has its hands in virtually every enterprise from prostitution and drug running, to rubbish collection and street vendors.
In the previous two series, Caterina discovered that her husband Franco was actually a vicious Camorra boss, her eldest son Nino was murdered and Caterina herself was forced to kill rival boss Vito Caporrino in an ultimately futile attempt to save her 13 ear-old son Amedeo from being killed. She has reluctantly taken on the mantel of leader of the Riccardi clan to save her one remaining child, Antonella, from harm.
Antonella, horrified at the reality of her parents' involvement with the Camorra, has run away. Now, Caterina has to control the rebellious men within her ranks as well as seek a reconciliation with Antonella. Trapped in a world of violence, fear and mistrust, will Caterina succumb to the darkness around her or is Antonella her one last hope of redemption?
It is hard to escape the explosion of 3D printing stories in the media. Every day it seems, the latest developments in 3D printing are thrust in front our eyes and ears. 3D printing is at the cusp of an electronic and technological revolution. A revolution the likes of which the world hasn't seen since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution over 200 years ago. The indications are that it could soon be possible for 3D Printers to manufacture any object from any material...including living cells.
Presenter Howard Stableford investigates a specific aspect and whether this development in 3D printing can bring real benefit to the natural world.
Along the way Howard discovers a 3D printed reef structure and scientific applications. With species extinction in the natural world is a reality Howard then asks the bigger question, "could 3D bioprinting to reverse this? Are we near the point when we could reproduce a living species?
An Orwellian thought maybe, but is it unreasonable to think that 3D printing might one day bring the iconic Dodo back from the dead.
A great singer and a great song. Marking the centenary of Billie Holiday's birth, four living jazz musicians and her biographer celebrate her extraordinary and dramatic life, along with her legacy and achievements, through the prism of one historic 12-bar blues.
The song Fine and Mellow, which Billie Holiday wrote herself, was recorded in 1957 with an all-star backing band including her friends Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge and Gerry Mulligan.
The programme is introduced by saxophonist Andy Sheppard, and also features expert
commentaries from band leader Guy Barker, singers Cleo Laine and Jacqui Dankworth, and Julia Blackburn, author of With Billie.
All this week Melvyn Bragg and guests are discussing ideas of Justice. Today lawyer Harry Potter uses the ideas of the philosopher Kant to ask whether deterrent prison sentences are just.
He takes us back to the 1700s, when hundreds of petty offences carried the death penalty. And Gordon Finlayson from the University of Sussex explains how Kant's idea that you should never treat people as a means to an end would put him at odds with our justice system today, where people can receive heavy sentences in order to put others off committing the same crime.
To see whether Kant's ideas and our justice system can be reconciled, Harry visits Lord Judge who was Lord Chief Justice at the time of the London riots of 2011, when deterrent sentences were handed down. He explains how sentences are determined.
A Halifax report out today suggests the number of first time buyers is dropping. More say they don't want to own their own home - they'd rather rent. Is our obsession with housing on the wane? Are we on the way to a continental model where renting is normal? Or are you part of a young generation that feels they are paying the price for the great recession?
Email us with your stories youandyours@bbc.co.uk, call us after 11 on 03700 100 444. And join Shari Vahl for Call You and Yours at 1215.
Inefficient, verbose and ugly, yet by the 1990s, 80 per cent of the world's business software was written in Cobol. Aleks Krotoski explores why.
The BBC's Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones stars as himself in this wicked comedy about internet fakery by the creator of Number 10.
When stay-at-home mum Ali finds herself lampooned on a mothers' chat site by 'BumsTooBig' and 'BubblyMummly', she can't help wishing she knew the real identity of her tormentors. But when her wish comes true, she finds she's unleashed an unstoppable global revolution.
A baby monitor which opens up a terrifying world, an explorer who ventures into the unknown and a woman who longs to disappear into space - Josie Long hears about dreams, desires and darkness in unmarked territories.
On old maps, the uncharted areas - dangerous or unexplored landscapes - used to be marked with illustrations of sea serpents rising from the water or dragons stalking the land. Sometimes these areas would just be marked with a phrase, 'Here Be Dragons'. In this programme, Josie hears tales of modern exploration - from space travel to the insides of our bodies, from night terrors to new worlds.
Feat. Joe Dunthorne
Feat. John Blashford Snell
Could the return of the Pine Marten mean the end of the Grey Squirrel takeover?
Tom Heap examines emerging evidence that where Pine Marten populations are healthy, Grey Squirrel numbers crash and native Red Squirrels increase.
Tom meets the researchers who found the connection in Ireland, and who are now investigating whether it's also happening in Scotland.
The Pine Marten is itself recovering from years of persecution and is still only found in tiny pockets of England and Wales. If the Pine Marten really is the saviour of the Red Squirrel there could be an added incentive for its reintroduction.
Michael Rosen and Laura Wright talk to Dominick Tyler about the evocative words he's collecting, words that people use to describe features in the British landscape - from Dingle to Desire Path..
Dominick Tyler is the author of Uncommon Ground: A word-lover's guide to the British landscape, and with his Landreader Project he aims to create a glossary of the British landscape.
The veteran broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald chooses the life of Learie Constantine, the Trinidadian cricketer, politician and broadcaster who championed the rights of West Indians in Britain during the war years and afterwards.
British Comedy legend June Whitfield makes a guest appearance as a beauty pageant judge.
Max and Ivan are private detectives for whom no case is too small.....Sorry, for whom no fee is too small.
Driven by their love of truth, justice (and the need to pay off their terrifying landlord, Malcolm McMichaelmas), they take on crimes that no-one else would consider. In this case, they investigate why 10-year-old Ophelia Hamilton always comes last in the beauty pageants her mother enters her for.
Max and Ivan - comedians and actors Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez - are a critically acclaimed, award-winning double act who have quickly established themselves as one of the most exciting comedy duos on the circuit.
Over the course of the series they are dropped into new worlds, and have to use their skills to penetrate deep into each community. If that means Ivan dressing up as a 14 year old German girl, so be it!
They are joined across the series by four star guests from the world of comedy - June Whitfield, Reece Shearsmith, Jessica Hynes, and Matt Lucas.
Adam despairs at the length of time Kate spends planting each of the strawberries, and she is easily distracted when Charlie arrives to talk to Adam about the wheat. Adam makes it clear he is paying her to work.
Susan tries to engage Helen in gossip about Shula and Richard Locke, but Helen changes the subject. She and Tom discuss how they might get Tony to think about buying a new bull and get some of his confidence back.
Charlie and Adam fly a drone over the wheat field and Adam is impressed with what he can see. He accepts Charlie's invitation to lunch at Grey Gables.
Susan compliments Helen on what she has done with the display at the farm shop. She asks Helen to stay a bit longer while she takes Clarrie's mobile phone back to her. Henry wants to stay and help when Helen says she has to leave shortly. Tom thinks Henry's taking after his mother.
Adam and Charlie's discussion about cropping systems is interrupted by Susan's screams at having seen a 'rat'.
Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo, best known for his series about troubled Oslo detective Harry Hole, discusses his latest novel Blood on Snow with Samira Ahmed. Another fast paced crime thriller, Blood on Snow is told from the perspective of a hit man hired to kill the woman he loves.
Action thriller John Wick stars Keanu Reeves as an accomplished hit man who comes out of retirement to take revenge for the murder of his dog. Also starring Alfie Allen as the spoilt son of a Russian mafia king pin, John Wick is set in a New York underworld and filled with stylised violence and action sequences. Antonia Quirke reviews.
100 years ago today, Billie Holiday, as she later became known, was born. To celebrate the singer's centenary, critic Jacqueline Springer, and biographer, John Szwed, examine what it is about her music that still captivates us in 2015.
Matthew Hill investigates how money is spent on cancer treatments and asks have we got the balance right?
The NHS England budget for cancer treatment is over £6 billion and given that one in two of us is likely to be diagnosed with cancer at some time in our lives how the money is spent potentially affects us all.
UK survival rates are improving but they still lag behind many countries in Europe. Matthew travels to a hospital in Lille, France, to see if we can learn from how cancer is treated there.
Given that early diagnosis remains a problem in the UK, and research shows that palliative care can improve the quality and length of life, should more money be invested in these two areas?
Authors Redmond Szell and Tanvir Bush discuss their experience of becoming published writers and talk to Peter White about other writing opportunities for aspirant blind and partially-sighted creatives.
They consider the question of whether to reveal one's blindness to publishers and whether a writer's blindness is a good selling point or something which can sometimes work against them.
Can you learn creative writing? Tanvir and Redmond offer advice to listeners who wish to reach their literary potential.
Are you an undecided voter? Claudia Hammond finds out what psychology can tell us about some of the influences on our decision making in the run up to the election. Cognitive psychologist, Professor Colin Davis talks about his research on TV election debates and the influence of the on screen 'worm' used to show what a group of undecided voters think about what's being said throughout the debate. How is mental health portrayed in the media? Paul Whitehouse's recent comedy, Nurse, showed him playing a range of people being visited by community psychiatric nurse, Liz. Is it funny and does it matter if people with mental health problems are used as the subject of comedy? Claudia is joined by real life CPN, Lin, and by anti-stigma campaigner, Nikki Mattocks, to discuss the programme. Also - the call for picture editors not to use 'head clutching' shots to accompany stories about mental health in the media. Sue Baker, Director of Time to Change explains. And what would an ideal asylum look like? Artist James Leadbitter shows reporter, Victoria Gill, his creation.
Scottish party leaders have taken part in a televised election debate in Edinburgh.
Molly McGrann's novel imagines the impact of the discovery of a man's double life.
For decades, Arthur Gillies ran high-class brothels in the most exclusive parts of London. Fifteen years on from his death, after a mix up at the bank, his daughter Marie has discovered that her father's estate contains millions of pounds, but still has no idea where the money has come from. She's secretly quit her job and is planning her first ever foreign holiday. Her elderly mother, Flavia, remains oblivious to it all.
My Teenage Diary returns with six more brave celebrities ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for the very first time.
Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by poet Jackie Kay who revisits her politically active student years in the early eighties, when she went on every demo she possibly could. She shares some of her early poetry, and talks about what a revelation it was to finally meet and make friends with other black women when she was at university.
Realising they have been protecting and corrupting the wrong child, Aziraphale and Crowley set out to discover what happened to the real son of Satan.
With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap, this is the first ever dramatisation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens.
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling.
Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly where the impending Apocalypse will take place.
Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.
Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself.
Crowley ...... Peter Serafinowicz
Aziraphale ...... Mark Heap
Marie ...... Tracy Wiles
Dagon ...... Ben Crowe
Agnes Nutter ...... Josie Lawrence
Shadwell ...... Clive Russell
Madame Tracy ...... Julia Deakin
Prout ...... Ben Crowe
Newton Pulsifer ...... Colin Morgan
Anathema Device ...... Charlotte Ritchie
Raven Sable ...... Paterson Joseph
Mary Hodges ...... Louise Brealey
Ami ...... Christy Meyers
Elvis The Cook ...... Mitch Benn
Blenkinsop ...... Paul Stonehouse
Tomkins ...... Theo Maggs
Wethered ...... Tom Alexander
Jane Garvey ...... Herself
Adam ...... Adam Thomas Wright
Pepper ...... Hollie Burgess
Wensleydale ...... Bobby Fuller
Brian ...... Lewis Andrews
WEDNESDAY 08 APRIL 2015
WED 00:00 Midnight News (b05pklx9)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
WED 00:30 The Story of Alice (b05qsylm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Tuesday]
WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b05pklxd)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b05pklxg)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b05pklxj)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 05:30 News Briefing (b05pklxl)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b05qk3wk)
Spiritual reflection to start the day with Rev Dr Ian Bradley of the University of St Andrews.
WED 05:45 Farming Today (b05pnswb)
Invading Wheat Rust, Young Flockmaster, Sheep Worrying, Watercress
UK scientists have identified that foreign strains of the plant disease Yellow Rust could now threaten wheat crops here. One strain is thought to have originated in the Himalayas.
We meet a young flockmaster from Staffordshire who juggles breeding Blue Texel sheep with school and homework.
A Dartmoor farmer tells us of the impact dog attacks are having on his business.
And, the Dorset grower expanding production to meet the increasing demand for Watercress.
Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Sarah Swadling.
WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b03zrc8z)
Green Woodpecker
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Kate Humble presents the green woodpecker. The maniacal laughing call, or 'yaffle', of a green woodpecker was supposed to herald rain, hence its old country name of 'rain bird'. You can hear their yodelling calls in woods, parks, heaths and large gardens throughout most of the UK. Altough green woodpeckers do nest in trees they spend a lot of their time on the ground, probing lawns and meadows for their main food, ants and their pupae.
WED 06:00 Today (b05pntyj)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
WED 09:00 Midweek (b05pntyl)
Steve Backshall, Mary Chamberlain, Trevor Pickett, James Freedman
Libby Purves meets wildlife presenter Steve Backshall; writer and academic Mary Chamberlain; pickpocket entertainer James Freedman and retailer Trevor Pickett.
James Freedman is a pickpocket entertainer whose new show, Man of Steal, exposes how criminals operate and how people can avoid becoming victims of street crime. The show incorporates his sleight of hand trickery and reflects his lifelong study of criminology and the psychology of thieves. James is also an advisor and educator on the subjects of crime prevention and fraud - particularly the growing areas of bank card fraud and identity theft. Man of Steal is at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London.
Mary Chamberlain is Emeritus professor of History at Oxford Brookes University. Her book, Fenwomen, was the first to be published by Virago Press 40 years ago and inspired Caryl Churchill's play Fen. When she was 23 Mary and her husband became involved with the anti-apartheid movement and were recruited as couriers for the ANC. The couple were part of a network of couriers around the world who, at great personal risk, smuggled anti-apartheid literature into South Africa. Her first novel, The Dressmaker of Dachau, is published by The Borough Press.
Trevor Pickett is a retailer who sells a range of luxury leather goods from his store in London's Mayfair. After starting out as a Saturday boy in the family bicycle shop in Essex, he now runs Pickett which has sold a collection of fine goods ranging from handbags and briefcases to backgammon sets for the last 25 years. Pickett is at Burlington Gardens, London.
Steve Backshall is a wildlife presenter and adventurer. During his career he has been charged by elephants, endured the stings of hundreds of bullet ants and encountered a hostile hippopotamus in South Africa. He also led the first ascent of Mount Upuigma in Venezuela, the first ascent of the North Face of Mount Kuli in Borneo, and explored new cave passages in New Britain and Sarawak. He is on tour to promote his novels, the Falcon Chronicles. The Falcon Chronicles are published by Orion Children's Books.
WED 09:45 The Story of Alice (b05qt15c)
Episode 2
Following publication of his two Alice books, Lewis Carroll continues to collect ‘child-friends’. The fashionable watering-hole of Eastbourne is his destination of choice.
Where did Alice stop and 'Alice' begin?
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage – a shortcut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years.
But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. The story of Charles Dodgson the quiet academic, and his second self Lewis Carroll – storyteller, innovator and avid collector of child-friends. And also of his dream-child Alice Liddell, and the fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up.
This is their secret history - one of love and loss, of innocence and ambiguity, and of one man's need to make Wonderland his refuge in a rapidly changing world.
Drawing on previously unpublished material, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst traces the creation and influence of the Alice books against a shifting cultural landscape – the birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood and sexuality, and the tensions inherent in the transition between the Victorian and modern worlds.
Read by Simon Russell Beale
Producer: Joanna Green
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2015.
WED 10:00 Woman's Hour (b05pntyq)
Ballet dancers and pregnancy
For a ballet dancer, controlling your body and maintaining the perfect physique must be a constant preoccupation. So what happens when you decide you'd like to have a baby and how do you cope with the way pregnancy changes your body and affects your ability to dance?
Why are rock-hard abs and perfectly toned triceps seen as the perfect body shape? In a news series for BBC-4 writer and classicist Natalie Haynes explores the British Museum's exhibition on the Greek preoccupation with the human form and explores how these sculptures capture and enforce the Ancient Greeks ideals of body shape.
Official statistics show a drop in life expectancy for female pensioners - we look at the reasons why.
Plus returnships are a way of getting qualified individuals back to work after a long career break. They are like internships, but for the older, more qualified individual. But do businesses want to hire someone who has been out of work for more than six months?
Presenter Jenni Murray
Producer Beverley Purcell.
WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama (b05pntys)
Le Donne
Episode 3
Third series of the drama about Caterina Riccardi, a beautiful, privileged wife and mother, and set in modern day Naples - vibrant, picaresque and, for some, terrifying - where the Camorra has its hands in virtually every enterprise from prostitution and drug running, to rubbish collection and street vendors.
In the previous two series, Caterina discovered that her husband Franco was actually a vicious Camorra boss, her eldest son Nino was murdered and Caterina herself was forced to kill rival boss Vito Caporrino in an ultimately futile attempt to save her 13 ear-old son Amedeo from being killed. She has reluctantly taken on the mantel of leader of the Riccardi clan to save her one remaining child, Antonella, from harm.
Antonella, horrified at the reality of her parents' involvement with the Camorra, has run away. Now, Caterina has to control the rebellious men within her ranks as well as seek a reconciliation with Antonella. Trapped in a world of violence, fear and mistrust, will Caterina succumb to the darkness around her or is Antonella her one last hope of redemption?
Episode 3:
Caterina is reunited with Antonella but she has an ultimatum for her mother. Caterina's leadership of the clan is increasingly precarious as her enemies surface.
Original music composed and performed by Simon Russell
Writer: Chris Fallon
Based on an original idea by Rosalynd Ward and Chris Fallon
Producer: Rosalynd Ward
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 10:56 The Listening Project (b05pntyv)
Diane and Paddy – Wedding or Camper Van?
Fi Glover introduces a couple who have been together for 20 years and have different ideas of the kind of wedding they want, but agree they’d like to get away from it all, in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess
WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape (b05pntyx)
Series 19
Titans Together
In the start of the new series of Lives in a Landscape Alan Dein discovers that instead of prescribing tablets local GPs are writing out prescriptions for a few weeks of Titan therapy: watching rugby games, attending weekly lunches and fitness classes. The pensioners are sitting alongside the players as they train and even as they strip down for next year's fund-raising calendar.
Titan therapy, at Rotherham Titans rugby club, has been so successful that many of those initially given funding for six weeks are still attending.
Those like 82 year old Grace couldn't be happier: "Tuesday morning and the weekend games are the highlight of my week - I was close to taking my own life when the doctor arranged for me to come here. But now it's changed my life completely."
For Match Day Captain, Tom Holmes, the idea has its roots in the club's long history of encouraging community involvement: "We need this more than ever in this area now and we all look forward to Grace and the others being here. I haven't told them this, but they are sort of like my own grand-parents. We've christened them the Conservatory Choir - on match days they sit there in our VIP section and you can hear them chant through the game."
Val is 70 and when her husband died just over a year ago she was hit by loneliness and ill health as she adapted to her new life. Coming to the Titans every week gives some structure to her week: "The players look out for me and they're the first to notice if I'm looking ill or down. The loneliness of the four walls is really hard. I loved my husband very much and it's so hard being without him. We get treated so well here - I love the lads and they sit with us for hours chatting and eating. I don't know how I'd have managed without this."
Producer Susan Mitchell.
WED 11:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! (b03w16pc)
Series 1
High-Speed Rail
Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they think is 'Help!'.
King of the one-liners, Milton Jones returns BBC to Radio 4 for an amazing 10th series in a new format where he has decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone anywhere - whether they need it or not. Because, in his own words, "No problem too problemy".
But each week, Milton and his trusty assistant Anton set out to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new adventure. So when you're close to the edge, then Milton can give you a push.
This week, there's rumours of a new rail line in the offing - and it's threatening a tiny delicate dormouse. So Milton decides he must put his foot down - carefully...
Written by Milton with James Cary ("Bluestone 42", "Miranda") and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 show "House Of Rooms") the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton," returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a shipload of new jokes.
The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Spamalot", "Mr. Selfridge") as the ever-faithful Anton, and Dan Tetsell ("Newsjack"), and features the one and only Josie Lawrence working with Milton for the first time.
Producer David Tyler's radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, Another Case Of Milton Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, The Brig Society, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going back a bit, Radio Active.
Produced and Directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 12:00 News Summary (b05pklxq)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 12:04 A History of Ideas (b05pnv94)
Philosopher Angie Hobbs on the Veil of Ignorance
Angie Hobbs with Leif Wenar and David Runciman debate and explore one of the most searching ideas of twentieth century legal thought: John Rawls' assertion of the value of a veil of ignorance.
John Rawls was a prolific American philosopher and one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. His magnum opus, A Theory of Justice defines the principles of Justice as those that "everyone would accept and agree to from a fair position". He proposed that in order to build a truly 'just' system of law, the law-makers should be kept unaware of their eventual position within that system - they should determine what is best for society from a position outside of society. This famous thought experiment is known as the 'veil of ignorance'.
Rawls served as a soldier in the Second World War and was promoted to Sergeant. After he refused to discipline a fellow soldier, who he thought had done nothing wrong, he was demoted back to Private.
Producer: Tim Dee.
WED 12:16 You and Yours (b05pnv96)
Scottish Power Complaints, Pet Insurance, Urban Noise
The Energy Ombudsman and Citizens Advice are handling more complaints about Scottish Power than any other energy company. We hear why one customer has been trying to change the name on their account for almost a year.
Anyone who takes a dog on holiday might want to check their insurance policy, after we hear from a listener faced with a large vet's bill after travelling to Germany.
And Bob Walker visits the research project in Brighton that is trying to reduce urban noise through design, and has found that by adding a few decibels of the right type of sound, people might reduce their own volume.
Presenter: Shari Vahl
Producer: Joel Moors.
WED 12:57 Weather (b05pklxs)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 13:00 World at One (b05pnvj0)
Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney.
WED 13:45 Codes that Changed the World (b05pnvmh)
Basic
Basic is the little language that could. As language of choice for home computing in the 1980s, it became iconic.
WED 14:00 The Archers (b05pnsr4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Tuesday]
WED 14:15 Drama (b05pnvq9)
Beyond Endurance
Dominic West stars as Ernest Shackleton in Meredith Hooper's play, charting the great explorer's 1914 Endurance expedition planning to cross Antarctica, told in the words of the explorers themselves.
Just over a hundred years ago, with war breaking out in Europe, Sir Ernest Shackleton set out on what is considered the last major expedition of the heroic age of polar exploration - to cross the Antarctic from coast to coast. This is the story of that expedition, told in the words of the men themselves, through their diaries, accounts and journals. It was an expedition that became known for being one of the great feats of endurance, and one from which Shackleton was determined not to lose a single man.
Sir Ernest Shackleton ..... Dominic West. West is best known for portraying Detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO drama series The Wire, and won the award for Leading Actor at the 2012 British Academy Television Awards for portraying serial killer Fred West in Appropriate Adult.
Thomas Orde-Lees ..... Jamie Glover
Frank Hurley ..... Gabriel Andrews
Alexander Macklin ..... Mark Edel-Hunt
Frank Wild ..... David Hounslow
Reginald James..... Neet Mohan
Harry McNish ..... Sam Dale
Written by Meredith Hooper, an award-winning writer, historian, lecturer and broadcaster who specialises in the Antarctic. The Ferocious Summer, her book on climate change in Antarctica, was named Daily Mail Science Book of the Year in 2008. Hooper has lived and worked in Antarctica for long periods of study as part of the Artists & Writers Programmes of both the Australian and US Governments, and as a guest of the Royal Navy. Her previous drama, Kathleen and Con, for BBC Radio 4, was based on the love letters between Captain Scott and his wife Kathleen.
This year she is curating the major exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society in London on Shackleton's Endurance Expedition.
Directed by Justine Willett.
WED 15:00 Money Box Live (b05pnvqc)
Small businesses
Paul Lewis and a panel of guests take your calls on small business finance. From loans, tax, and banking to alternative sources of finance. More small businesses are applying for credit and getting loans approved. What's the best way of convincing a lender to invest in your business? You may be a small trader and want to know how measures in last month's Budget may help you - like the scrapping of the annual tax return.
On the panel will be:
Mike Cherry, policy chairman, Federation of Small Businesses.
Elaine Clark, managing director, Cheap Accounting.
Carl D'Ammassa, managing director of Aldermore Asset Finance.
Richard Bearman, UK director of small businesses, HSBC
Call 03700 100 444 from
1pm to
3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic call charges apply.
WED 15:30 All in the Mind (b05pnsrd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 on Tuesday]
WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed (b05pnvqh)
Free Will Explored
Free will explored. Laurie Taylor talks to Julian Baggini, writer and Founding Editor of The Philosophers' Magazine, about his latest work which considers the concept of freedom. He argues against the idea that free will is an illusion due to a combination of genes, environment and personal history. Instead he posits a sliding scale of freedom which allows for the possibility of individual agency and responsibility. Also, pets as family: Nickie Charles, Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at Warwick University, discusses her study of kinship across the species barrier.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
WED 16:30 The Media Show (b05pnvr6)
Victoria Derbyshire; Leaders' debates; Telegraph chief's exit; Lib Dem media policy
The Telegraph's chief content officer and editor-in-chief Jason Seiken has left the newspaper after just eighteen months. His tenure was not without controversy - recruited from public service broadcaster PBS in the USA, Jason was tasked with responsibility for all editorial operations and transforming the newsroom into a dynamic, entrepreneurial culture with digital products at its core. What impact did he make and where does this leave the Telegraph and its digital strategy now? Steve hears from Peter Preston, columnist and former editor of the Guardian and Douglas McCabe of Enders Analysis.
Victoria Derbyshire's new daily current affairs show debuts this week on BBC 2 and the News Channel. It's led by a 'Digital First' strategy, in which specially commissioned films are published to the website before broadcast. Steve speaks to Victoria about how a programme can work for both news and daytime formats, and the challenge of making the informality and intimacy of radio work on TV.
Last week's 7 way leaders' debate on ITV attracted 7 million viewers, with different polls declaring different 'winners'. It's the second of the much debated TV debates to be broadcast; over the next month the "challenger parties" will meet, as will the leaders of the three larger parties. So, half way through the process, are the formats working and is the audience really learning anything from the debates? Steve Hewlett discusses with Jenni Russell, political columnist for The Times, and Peter Preston, columnist for The Guardian.
And in the latest of our interviews with political parties in the run up to the general election, we hear from Liberal Democrat John Leech about the party's media policy.
Producer: Katy Takatsuki.
WED 17:00 PM (b05pnw2n)
With the latest news interviews, context and analysis.
WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b05pklxx)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 18:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05pnw2q)
Series 2
Episode 2
Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates a 19th-century bet.
Can his pig (Gwladys) cross a bridge quicker than a waterman can row the width of the river beneath?
Producer: Joe Nunnery.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
WED 19:00 The Archers (b05pnw2s)
Eddie and Ed are looking at second-hand tractors for Ed's new business when Eddie is attracted by a shiny newer one which he persuades Ed to buy. Their viewing is interrupted by a panicky call from Joe who's worried that Daphne the ferret is about to be killed, as Caroline has called in the pest controllers at Grey Gables.
Alistair thinks he may have found some temporary accommodation for his surgery. He tells Shula they'll need to get back quickly after Dan's passing out parade, as he has an appointment to view the property in Penny Hassett. Fortunately Shula's dress has arrived in time, and Alistair assures her she will look every inch the officer's mother.
The Grundys are frantically trying to find Daphne before the pest controllers poison her. They're caught in the laundry room by Roy, who produces Daphne from his pocket. Roy offers to look after the ferrets at his home.
Eddie says they've had a successful day all round but Ed is worried about having committed to the tractor without discussing it with Emma.
WED 19:16 Front Row (b05pnw2v)
Helen Mirren, Ed Vaizey, Benjamin Clementine
Helen Mirren talks about her new film, Woman in Gold, in which she plays a holocaust survivor fighting to reclaim art stolen by the Nazis.
John Wilson is joined by Ed Vaizey, minister for culture, communications and creative industries, to discuss the Conservatives' cultural policy record and plans.
Singer and pianist Benjamin Clementine grew up in Edmonton North London but fled to Paris in his late teens and busked in the city until being spotted and encouraged to make his first EP. As he releases his debut album, At Least for Now, he tells John about his remarkable journey.
WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b05pntys)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:41 today]
WED 20:00 The Human Zoo (b05pnw2x)
Election Special
A month before the general election, Michael Blastland examines whether or not the way we vote can really be changed, and asks if political persuasion is pointless.
In a series of experiments run in the Human Zoo lab, the team gauges how opinions are formed in members of the public, and the extent to which psychological 'tricks' can provoke a shift in mindset.
How does a politician's physical appearance impact on how their policies are perceived? Can the temperature of our lab have an impact when our subjects debate evidence for man-made global warming? Can opinion on an issue such as crime be changed when the facts are presented?
At the heart of the matter are our biases and judgements - how we perceive the world and how rationally or irrationally we behave.
Michael is guided by Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick University, and resident reporter Timandra Harkness sets out to discover how other countries use behavioural science in an attempt to win elections.
Produced by Dom Byrne and Eve Streeter
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 20:45 Four Thought (b05pnw2z)
Amy Golden
Amy Golden, who is seriously disabled - she can move only her right arm and cannot speak - shares what life is like through her eyes. In an essay read by actor Rhiannon Neads, she reveals her frustrations, her battle with depression and also the pleasures of being able to watch what other people are up to without being noticed. "I think perhaps they sometimes allow me to pick up on things because they don't realise that there's a thinking, feeling person inside this body," she says. Her talk is a passionate plea to be heard and noticed. "If you want to know what I want to say you have to focus on me," Amy insists. "You can't ignore me, or pretend I'm not here."
Producer: Sheila Cook
Editor: Richard Knight.
WED 21:00 Costing the Earth (b05pn674)
[Repeat of broadcast at
15:30 on Tuesday]
WED 21:30 Midweek (b05pntyl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 22:00 The World Tonight (b05pnw39)
Labour defends manifesto commitment to scrap non-dom tax rule
Status allows tens of thousands of wealthy people to avoid tax on overseas earnings.
WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b05pnw3c)
The Ladies of the House
Episode 8
For decades, Arthur Gillies lived a double life: running twenty high-class brothels in exclusive parts of London, while maintaining a quiet married life in Kettering. Fifteen years on from his death, his daughter Marie has discovered the truth - and the huge extent of her father's estate. She has mobilised Arthur's solicitor, Mr Wye, to sell the properties from underneath their sitting tenants: consisting of Arthur's former employees (the now elderly madams and prostitutes) and his illegitimate son, Joseph.
Read by Susan Jameson
Written by Molly McGrann
Abridged by Robin Brooks
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.
WED 23:00 Jigsaw (b01qwgm6)
Series 1
Episode 2
Stand-up comedians Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine and Nat Luurtsema combine their talents to piece together a rapid-fire and surreal sketch show.
Produced by Colin Anderson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.
WED 23:15 The Music Teacher (b039q5ft)
Series 3
Episode 2
Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher Nigel Penny.
Belinda's decision to allow the Arts Centre to be a wedding venue means Nigel is charged with providing the music. But his efforts to soundtrack the happiest day of Ebony's life are somewhat hampered by a tone deaf bridesmaid, a pupil with a phobia of sharps and flats and the need to have his piano re-tuned every five minutes.
Directed by Nick Walker
Audio production by Matt Katz
Written and produced by Richie Webb
A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 23:30 Good Omens (b04vf43c)
Episode 3
Aziraphale consults Agnes's prophesies in the hunt for the antichrist, the Witchfinder Army send Newt to Tadfield, and the Horsepersons of the Apocalypse continue to be summoned.
With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap, this is the first ever dramatisation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens.
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling.
Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly where the impending Apocalypse will take place.
Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.
Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself.
There's just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him...
Crowley ...... Peter Serafinowicz
Aziraphale ...... Mark Heap
Major Pulsifer ...... Ben Crowe
Agnes Nutter ...... Josie Lawrence
Anathema Device ...... Charlotte Ritchie
Newton Pulsifer ...... Colin Morgan
Shadwell ...... Clive Russell
Madame Tracy ...... Julia Deakin
Lopez ...... Mitch Benn
Blake ...... Theo Maggs
Wasabi Computer ...... Andy Secombe
Carmine Zuigiber ...... Rachael Stirling
Chalk ...... Harry Lloyd
Death ...... Jim Norton
International Express ...... Ron Cook
Anforth ...... Nicholas Briggs
Nick Grimshaw ...... Himself
Martha Kearney ...... Herself
Neil Sleat ...... Himself
Adam ...... Adam Thomas Wright
Pepper ...... Hollie Burgess
Wensleydale ...... Bobby Fuller
Brian ...... Lewis Andrews
Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs.
Producer: Heather Larmour
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014.
THURSDAY 09 APRIL 2015
THU 00:00 Midnight News (b05pklyw)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
THU 00:30 The Story of Alice (b05qt15c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Wednesday]
THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b05pklyz)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b05pklz1)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b05pklz3)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 05:30 News Briefing (b05pklz5)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b05qk4bt)
Spiritual reflection to start the day with Rev Dr Ian Bradley of the University of St Andrews.
THU 05:45 Farming Today (b05pqlzx)
English or New Zealand lamb at Easter; Young crofters in Scotland
Whilst it's traditional for some to eat lamb at Easter, Caz Graham hears why a drought in New Zealand has led to more lamb than usual from the New World in UK shops this spring. We hear from Nick Allen of EBLEX, the body which represents the English beef and sheep industry.
NFU Scotland is calling for grants to enable Scottish farmers to build or renovate houses on crofts. They say that affordable housing is key to the future prospects of crofting in the country. 90 young crofters met recently at Assynt in north-west Scotland to share ideas and discuss what they want their way of life to look like in the future. We hear from one of them.
And Caz witnesses the birth of a Hebridean lamb with the Cumbrian flock looked after by 14 year old George Purcell.
Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Mark Smalley.
THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b03zrc9l)
Hoopoe
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Kate Humble presents the hoopoe. The hoopoe, a salmon-coloured bird with a long curved bill and a black-tipped crest, which it can spread like a fan when excited, is so outrageously exotic that its call reminds us of the Mediterranean. Several hoopoes arrive in the UK each spring and autumn. These are usually birds which have overshot their migration routes and almost certainly won't find a mate here, though they do breed very occasionally.
THU 06:00 Today (b05pqsk1)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
THU 09:00 In Our Time (b05pqsk4)
Sappho
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Greek poet Sappho. Born in the late seventh century BC, Sappho spent much of her life on the island of Lesbos. In antiquity she was famed as one of the greatest lyric poets, but owing to a series of accidents the bulk of her work was lost to posterity. The fragments that do survive, however, give a tantalising glimpse of a unique voice of Greek literature. Her work has lived on in other languages, too, translated by such major poets as Ovid, Christina Rossetti and Baudelaire.
With
Edith Hall
Professor of Classics at King's College, London
Margaret Reynolds
Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London
and
Dirk Obbink
Professor of Papyrology and Greek Literature at the University of Oxford
Fellow and tutor at Christ Church, Oxford
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
THU 09:45 The Story of Alice (b05qt729)
Episode 5
Oxford gossip is catching up with Lewis Carroll. And while the ‘real’ Alice begins married life in a grand Georgian country house, he remains an object of fascination at Christ Church.
Where did Alice stop and 'Alice' begin?
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage – a shortcut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years.
But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. The story of Charles Dodgson the quiet academic, and his second self Lewis Carroll – storyteller, innovator and avid collector of child-friends. And also of his dream-child Alice Liddell, and the fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up.
This is their secret history - one of love and loss, of innocence and ambiguity, and of one man's need to make Wonderland his refuge in a rapidly changing world.
Drawing on previously unpublished material, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst traces the creation and influence of the Alice books against a shifting cultural landscape – the birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood and sexuality, and the tensions inherent in the transition between the Victorian and modern worlds.
Read by Simon Russell Beale.
Producer: Joanna Green
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2015.
THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (b05pqskg)
Nazi Grandfather; General Election 2015; Teen Agony Aunts
The woman who discovered that her grandfather was the Nazi war criminal Amon Goeth talks about how she found out and came to terms with the knowledge. We catch up with political editor Allegra Stratton with the latest from the campaign trail. Gender and identity with psychotherapist Michelle Bridgman. One of the first teen advice columns appeared in Jackie magazine in the 1960s - we hear from agony aunts, better known as Cathy and Claire. The story of shopping over the centuries and the insight it gives us into people's lives.
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Anne Peacock.
THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b05rhvhs)
Le Donne
Episode 4
Third series of the drama about Caterina Riccardi, a beautiful, privileged wife and mother, and set in modern day Naples - vibrant, picaresque and, for some, terrifying - where the Camorra has its hands in virtually every enterprise from prostitution and drug running, to rubbish collection and street vendors.
In the previous two series, Caterina discovered that her husband Franco was actually a vicious Camorra boss, her eldest son Nino was murdered and Caterina herself was forced to kill rival boss Vito Caporrino in an ultimately futile attempt to save her 13 ear-old son Amedeo from being killed. She has reluctantly taken on the mantel of leader of the Riccardi clan to save her one remaining child, Antonella, from harm.
Antonella, horrified at the reality of her parents' involvement with the Camorra, has run away. Now, Caterina has to control the rebellious men within her ranks as well as seek a reconciliation with Antonella. Trapped in a world of violence, fear and mistrust, will Caterina succumb to the darkness around her or is Antonella her one last hope of redemption?
Episode 4:
Caterina is caught in a dangerous struggle for power within her organisation that, once again, threatens the safety of her family.
Original music composed and performed by Simon Russell
Writer: Chris Fallon
Based on an original idea by Rosalynd Ward and Chris Fallon
Producer: Rosalynd Ward
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 11:00 Crossing Continents (b05pqskm)
The Bizarre Workings of St Louis County, Missouri
Are excessive traffic fines and debtors' jails fuelling community tensions in suburban Missouri? Claire Bolderson reports on a network of ninety separate cities in St Louis County, most of which have their own courts and police forces. Critics say that their size makes them financially unviable and allege that some of them boost their incomes by fining their own citizens and locking them up when they can't pay.
This edition of Crossing Continents goes out and about in St Louis County to meet the people who say they are victims of a system which sees arrest warrants issued for relatively minor misdemeanours. Many of the victims are poor and black. The programme also takes us into the courts, and out onto the freeways with some of the County's police, who say they are upholding the law and promoting road safety.
The US government is not so sure. One of the towns in question is Ferguson where riots erupted after a white police officer shot a young black man dead last summer. In a recent report on the riots, the Department of Justice concluded that the Ferguson police had been stopping people for no good reason. It said they were putting revenue before public safety.
Claire Bolderson investigates how widespread the practice is and considers the impact on relations between citizens and the authorities that govern them.
Produced by Michael Gallagher.
THU 11:30 Ursula Le Guin at 85 (b05pkmyg)
Naomi Alderman talks to leading novelist Ursula Le Guin about her life and work and hears from literary fans including David Mitchell and Neil Gaiman.
THU 12:00 News Summary (b05pklz9)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:04 A History of Ideas (b05pqskp)
Thomas Hobbes and Civil Disobedience
Criminologist David Wilson looks at 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes and his "social contract" theory. Hobbes argued that the only way to secure peace was for everyone to give up their personal freedom and agree to be ruled by a "sovereign". Otherwise, he said, life was liable to be "nasty, brutish and short", with everyone at war with everyone else.
In fact, none of us has actually signed a contract to give up our freedom, so what if we disagree with what the state wants to do? David looks at the case of the "naked rambler", Stephen Gough, who is currently in Winchester prison because he refuses to wear clothes in public. Gough benefits from the protection of the state, so is he obliged to stick to social norms as his part of the bargain?
David also looks at "bitcoins" - the digital currency that operates outside the control of any government. Is bitcoin world a libertarian utopia, or a reminder of what Hobbes was talking about: that without someone to lay down the law, you end up with violence and rampant criminality?
Presenter: David Wilson
Producer: Jolyon Jenkins.
THU 12:16 You and Yours (b05pqskr)
Compression sportsgear; Air pollution; AirBnB
Researchers consider the science behind tight fitting compression sportswear. How much do they really improve performance? Shari Vahl talks to cyclists at Manchester Velodrome.
If you have a spare room or are going away on holiday, websites like AirBnB, OneFineStay and HomeAway can seem like an easy way to make some extra cash. But Camden Council fears new rules will turn central London streets into holiday camps.
And mobile phones can do practically everything these days, so we'll hear from a man who's taking it to extremes by living his entire life through apps. Can it work? App-solutely.
Presented by Shari Vahl
Produced by Natalie Donovan.
THU 12:57 Weather (b05pklzc)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 13:00 World at One (b05pqskv)
Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney.
THU 13:45 Codes that Changed the World (b05pqskx)
Java
Aleks Krotoski introduces the programming language that people probably interact with on a daily basis more than any other.
THU 14:00 The Archers (b05pnw2s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Wednesday]
THU 14:15 Drama (b05pqsl3)
The Imperfect Education of Sabrina Sidney
Drama by Abigail Youngman starring Rory Bremner, Aidan McArdle and Amanda Root. Set in the eighteenth century and based on true events, it tells the story of two young girls involved in a most peculiar educational experiment carried out by the philanthropist and intellectual Thomas Day.
Directed by Alison Crawford.
THU 15:00 Open Country (b05pqsl7)
The Hoo Peninsula
In the marshy landscape of the Hoo Peninsula you can find much of British history. Saxon and Roman remains point to mans first efforts to hold back the sea and use this land for agriculture. The Churchyard in Cooling provides the backdrop for one of Dickens best known works 'Great Expectations'. In Cliffe you can find the remains of an Edwardian explosives factory and at the RSPB reserve on Northward Hill what is left of a radio station used in the Second World War. Today the military history of the area remains but at Lodge Hill the unused Ministry of Defence site has now become home to a substantial nightingale population. This is the great irony of The Hoo landscape, we can clearly see the imprint of heavy industry at places like Grain where we find essential power stations and infrastructure yet it's isolation has also made this place attractive to birds and rare wildlife. Helen Mark explores this unique part of Kent and uncovers just some of the stories which exist beside the container ports and farmland.
THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (b05pkxz7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:54 on Sunday]
THU 15:30 Bookclub (b05pl64c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
THU 16:00 The Film Programme (b05pqtg8)
Ryan Gosling; 25 Years of BBC Films
With Francine Stock.
Ryan Gosling discusses his directorial debut Lost River, which was met with a mixture of cheers and jeers at its Cannes premiere.
The head of BBC Films, Christine Langan, looks back at its 25 years history, including such hits as Billy Elliot, Philomena, and Fish Tank, and laments the lack of original stories that land on her desk.
One of Britain's few winners at this year's Oscars, hair and make-up artist Frances Hannon, talks about her award-winning moustaches and wigs for The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Ruben Ostlund, the director of Force Majeure, a black comedy about a family holiday from hell, reveals why he would like his film to help increase the divorce rate.
THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science (b05pqtgd)
Legacy of Messenger, Computer Touch, AI and Traumatic Forgetting, Stained Glass Restoration
This month sees the end of NASA's MESSENGER mission to Mercury. It's been the first mission to the sun's closest planet since Mariner 10 flew by in the mid-1970s. Lucie Green speaks to geologist Professor Pete Schultz of Brown University about the orbiter's 4 year surveillance and how new observations of this under explored world are shedding light on the planet's mysterious dark cratered surface.
Virtual experiences are coming closer and closer to reality as both sound and vision, and even smell, become convincing. But without the sense of touch you'll never have the full experience. A team at Bristol University has now managed to generate the feeling of pressure projected directly onto your bare, empty hands. Its system enables you to feel invisible interfaces, textures and virtual objects through the use of ultrasound. Roland Pease gets a hands on experience.
One of the biggest challenges in artificial intelligence is conquering a computer's so-called "catastrophic forgetting": as soon as a new skill is learned others get crowded out, which makes artificial computer brains one trick ponies. Jeff Clune of Wyoming University directs the Evolving Artificial Intelligence Lab and has tested the idea that computer brains could evolve to work in the same way as human brains - in a modular fashion. He shows how by doing so, it's possible to learn more and forget less.
And there's a visit to the Ion Beam Centre at University of Surrey where, in conjunction with a project to restore the Rosslyn chapel near Edinburgh, scientists have provided a new development in stained glass conservation - scrutinising the glass contents at the subatomic level using a narrow beam of accelerated charged particles, to literally decode the exquisite features lost to the naked eye. Lucie Green caught up with the Centre's director, Roger Webb.
Producer Adrian Washbourne.
THU 17:00 PM (b05pqtgg)
With the latest news interviews, context and analysis.
THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b05pklzf)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b03j9h7c)
Series 9
The Berkhamstead Job
Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his never-ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and cat together.
When Ed's flat burns down his old nemesis, Jaz Milvain, rides to the rescue. As a "National Treasure" lots of people want to work with Jaz (or so he says) and he's got some serious investors who want him to make a movie - an action-adventure with a quirky sci-fi twist. Ed is not keen until Alex offers him a rather nice hotel to work from. So it is that Ed starts writing 'Doctor Bond', or is it 'Harry Hobbit'.....
Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas
Produced by Dawn Ellis.
THU 19:00 The Archers (b05pqtgj)
Helen's delayed at the shop, much to Rob's annoyance. There's nothing in the fridge for dinner. Tom has picked up details of a bull sale for Tony to look at, but Tony is more concerned with getting to the hospital for his check-up.
Ruth helps Heather pack and fills her in on Richard Locke's history in the village.
Tom suggests it would be good to keep the shop going at the farm even when the shop on the green reopens. Ruth and Heather arrive to buy some local produce for Heather to take back home with her. Tony returns from his check-up whilst they are there and is pleased with what they have told him. So much so that he insists that he will choose the bull as it's not Tom's area of expertise.
Rob makes clear his unhappiness at Helen spending so much time at the farm shop (and obviously enjoying it). He gets cross with Henry when he won't eat the meal that Rob has prepared. When Helen says she can't manage it, Rob blames it on her not being at home.
THU 19:16 Front Row (b05pqx2b)
Ray Davies, Force Majeure, Gillian Ayres, Game of Thrones
Songwriter Ray Davies joins John to talk about Sunny Afternoon, his critically acclaimed musical based on the early years of the Kinks, which is enjoying a successful transfer to London's West End and is nominated for five Olivier Awards. Ray Davies discusses how the band's troubled early years and rise to fame are portrayed on stage.
Swedish film Force Majeure won prizes at Cannes and the Guldbagge Awards, as well as being nominated for Best Foreign Language film at the Golden Globes. It follows a Swedish family on holiday in the French Alps, and the rising tensions when a controlled avalanche threatens the family, provoking unexpected reactions. The critic Mark Eccleston reviews.
Game of Thrones has gained cult status among its fans and the fifth series of the fantasy drama is highly anticipated. Historian Dr Janina Ramirez discusses how its creators have drawn on historical events and what makes the series such compelling viewing.
Artist Gillian Ayres, who is now in her mid 80s, talks about a new exhibition of her work, her love of colour and her experiences teaching art to young children in London's bomb ravaged East End during the Blitz.
Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Olivia Skinner.
THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b05rhvhs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
THU 20:00 The Report (b05pqx2d)
Are Russian sanctions dangerous for Britain?
EU sanctions against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine expire in September. Sharmini Selvarajah looks at whether it is in Britain's security and business interests to see them extended, and whether they go far enough to curb Russian aggression.
THU 20:30 In Business (b05pqx2g)
Blank Screens
The Information Technology department used to be a mysterious backroom operation, but has become the vital component of a successful company. With relentless technical developments businesses are facing a constant risk of their computer systems being past their sell by date.
Peter Day explores how companies are wrestling with the increasing demands of keeping their I.T fit for purpose.
Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane
Credit: Photo and LEO Computer recording in the programme courtesy of LEO Computers Society, www.leo-computers.org.uk.
THU 21:02 BBC Inside Science (b05pqtgd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 today]
THU 21:30 In Our Time (b05pqsk4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 22:00 The World Tonight (b05pqx2j)
French TV channel goes off air after hack by IS supporters
French PM condemns hackers, describes act as "attack on freedom of expression"
THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b05pqx2l)
The Ladies of the House
Episode 9
Molly McGrann's novel about the fallout from the discovery of a man's double life.
For decades, Arthur Gillies ran high-class brothels in London while maintaining a sober married life in Kettering. Fifteen years on from his death, after a mix up at the bank, his daughter Marie has stumbled upon the truth and discovered the extent of her late father's estate: which encompasses millions of pounds and twenty houses in some of the most exclusive areas of London.
Marie has mobilised Arthur's solicitor, Mr Wye, to sell the properties from underneath their sitting tenants: consisting of Arthur's former employees (the now elderly madams and prostitutes) and his illegitimate son, Joseph. As he awaits a visit from Mr Wye, Joseph thinks back on his life growing up in the Primrose Hill brothel.
Read by Susan Jameson
Written by Molly McGrann
Abridged by Robin Brooks
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.
THU 23:00 Chat Show Roulette (b05pqx2n)
Episode 4
Justin Edwards is the host of the new improvised chat show. His guests are Adil Ray, Jarred Christmas and Rachel Parris - with musical accompaniment from James Sherwood.
Devised by Ashley Blaker and Justin Edwards.
Produced by Ashley Blaker
A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 23:30 Good Omens (b04vjb60)
Episode 4
Newt and Anathema try to decipher Agnes's cryptic riddles; Aziraphale and Crowley receive visits from the Angelic and Demonic authorities, and Adam begins to formulate some plans.
With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap, this is the first ever dramatisation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens.
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling.
Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly where the impending Apocalypse will take place.
Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.
Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself.
There's just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him...
Crowley ...... Peter Serafinowicz
Aziraphale ...... Mark Heap
Agnes Nutter ...... Josie Lawrence
Anathema Device ...... Charlotte Ritchie
Newton Pulsifer ...... Colin Morgan
Shadwell ...... Clive Russell
Madame Tracy ...... Julia Deakin
Hastur ...... Phil Davis
Ligur ...... Neil Maskell
Melatron ...... Nicholas Briggs
Adam ...... Adam Thomas Wright
Pepper ...... Hollie Burgess
Wensleydale ...... Bobby Fuller
Brian ...... Lewis Andrews
Corrie Corfield ...... Herself
Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs.
Producer: Heather Larmour.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014.
FRIDAY 10 APRIL 2015
FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b05pkm0h)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
FRI 00:30 The Story of Alice (b05qt729)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Thursday]
FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b05pkm0l)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b05pkm0n)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b05pkm0q)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b05pkm0s)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b05qk57b)
Spiritual reflection to start the day with Rev Dr Ian Bradley of the University of St Andrews.
FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b05pr1wb)
Cod Stocks, Young Farmers, Milk in 2020, Beef Backlog
Scottish beef is piling up in cold stores because the strong pound's made it too expensive to export to the Eurozone. Beef imports from Europe, on the other hand, have become much cheaper. Scottish farmers face a delay of weeks before abattoirs will accept their animals.
We hear from the analysts who think that UK dairy industry should be thriving in five years time.
The recovery of North Sea Cod stocks could see it certified as sustainable in five years, according to the industry body Seafish.
Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Sarah Swadling.
FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b03zrccd)
Little Owl
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Kate Humble presents the little owl. Little owls really are little, about as long as a starling but much stockier with a short tail and rounded wings. If you disturb one it will bound off low over the ground before swinging up onto a telegraph pole or gatepost where it bobs up and down, glaring at you fiercely through large yellow and black eyes. Today, you can hear the yelps of the birds and their musical spring song across the fields and parks of much of England and Wales.
FRI 06:00 Today (b05pr272)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
FRI 09:00 The Reunion (b05pl2rq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:16 on Sunday]
FRI 09:45 The Story of Alice (b05qt8j8)
Episode 3
The Alice books prove far better than their creator at adapting to the modern world. And illness begins to take its toll.
Where did Alice stop and 'Alice' begin?
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage – a shortcut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years.
But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. The story of Charles Dodgson the quiet academic, and his second self Lewis Carroll – storyteller, innovator and avid collector of child-friends. And also of his dream-child Alice Liddell, and the fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up.
This is their secret history - one of love and loss, of innocence and ambiguity, and of one man's need to make Wonderland his refuge in a rapidly changing world.
Drawing on previously unpublished material, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst traces the creation and influence of the Alice books against a shifting cultural landscape – the birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood and sexuality, and the tensions inherent in the transition between the Victorian and modern worlds.
Read by Simon Russell Beale.
Producer: Joanna Green
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2015.
FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b05pr509)
Women's Boat Race, Football Clubs' Sexual Consent Training, Becoming Deaf Aged Four
Oxford and Cambridge Women's Boat Race: Saturday marks a moment of history when for the first time the Women's Boat Race is rowed on the same day and over the same course as the men's. Clare Balding will present coverage of the race. She joins Jenni to consider its history and what it means for women's sport.
Sexual consent training for footballers: Brighton and Hove Albion FC is one of the first clubs to provide training to its young male and female players. Jenni talks to Sue Parris, head of education and welfare and footballer Chike Kandi.
Joy of Sidecars: Anna King reports on the motorbike enthusiasts who carry on biking when they have children by bolting on a sidecar and taking them along.
Supporting Deaf Children and their Families: Susan Daniels, CEO of the National Deaf Children's Society has been deaf since she was four years old. She talks to Jenni about her experiences of growing up as a deaf child, the work of the NDCS and what needs to be done to ensure that all deaf children reach their true potential.
The Role of the Grandmother: 70-year old Virginia Ironside, journalist, agony aunt and grandmother of two and Helen McCarthy, historian of modern Britain at Queen Mary University of London debate how being a grandma has changed over the past 100-years.
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Rebecca Myatt.
FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b05pr81p)
Le Donne
Episode 5
Third series of the drama about Caterina Riccardi, a beautiful, privileged wife and mother, and set in modern day Naples - vibrant, picaresque and, for some, terrifying - where the Camorra has its hands in virtually every enterprise from prostitution and drug running, to rubbish collection and street vendors.
In the previous two series, Caterina discovered that her husband Franco was actually a vicious Camorra boss, her eldest son Nino was murdered and Caterina herself was forced to kill rival boss Vito Caporrino in an ultimately futile attempt to save her 13 ear-old son Amedeo from being killed. She has reluctantly taken on the mantel of leader of the Riccardi clan to save her one remaining child, Antonella, from harm.
Antonella, horrified at the reality of her parents' involvement with the Camorra, has run away. Now, Caterina has to control the rebellious men within her ranks as well as seek a reconciliation with Antonella. Trapped in a world of violence, fear and mistrust, will Caterina succumb to the darkness around her or is Antonella her one last hope of redemption?
Episode 5:
Caterina makes a deal and contemplates a new life away from the Camorra. But first she has some business to attend to.
Original music composed and performed by Simon Russell
Writer: Chris Fallon
Based on an original idea by Rosalynd Ward and Chris Fallon
Producer: Rosalynd Ward
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 11:00 Children of the Scattered Homes (b05pr81r)
Clare Jenkins uses the resources of the Sheffield Archive, social media and newspapers to track down the children of the 'scattered homes' - a pioneering scheme, begun in 1893, to take poor children over three years old out of the workhouse and bring them up in homes scattered across the city.
Clare researches the history of the system and talks to descendents of those children adopted by the Sheffield Guardians . She looks at their school reports and finds out what happened to the children after they left their 'scattered home'.
The system was called 'utopian' by the Victorians, and copied all over Britain. It was seen as a successful way of removing the children away from the pauperisation effects of the workhouse - but the children were often parted from their parents just because they were poor.
Clare discovers how to research recent history as she tracks down the stories of the children of the scattered homes and learns of their fate.
Producer: Janet Graves
A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 11:30 Paul Temple (b0376jjx)
Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair
Mr Davos Has an Alibi
Part 4 of a new production of a vintage serial from 1946.
From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures survive in the archives.
In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the production of Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery aimed to sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so popular that it was soon followed by three more revivals, Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery, Paul Temple and Steve, and A Case for Paul Temple.
Now, from 1946, it's the turn of Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair, in which Paul and Steve go on the trail of the mysterious and murderous Mr Gregory.
Episode 4: Mr Davos has an Alibi
Another death - and this time the killer comes very close to home.
Producer Patrick Rayner
Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He was one of the most successful novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his day.
FRI 12:00 News Summary (b05pkm0z)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:04 A History of Ideas (b05prkh1)
Historian Alice Taylor on Habeas Corpus
Historian Alice Taylor explores the idea of justice through history, through the lens of power. Who holds the power? Who SHOULD hold the power? Who does that power serve? And who should it protect?
One way in which the justice system can remove the power of a citizen is by locking them up, but there are strict laws about how and when that can be done. The writ of Habeas Corpus, part of our legal system almost since the time of Magna Carta, is designed to protect subjects from being imprisoned unlawfully. But who this writ really serves is a more complicated question. Alice follows the legal and historical trail to find out who really decides what justice is.
Producer: Emily Knight.
FRI 12:16 You and Yours (b05prkh3)
Productivity, Maps, Loyalty Cards
Sainsbury's cut the value of nectar points
Why maps often lie
Britain is propping up much of the developed world in productivity why does this matter to the consumer?
The EU moves to make it easier to buy goods online in Europe
Why conservationists think its important we know where the fish we eat has been caught.
FRI 12:57 Weather (b05pkm11)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 13:00 World at One (b05prkh5)
News and current affairs presented by Mark Mardell. Are politicians making promises without telling us how they'll be paid for? We have some analysis and hear from three party spokesmen.
As pollution descends on Southern England we ask if there's a need for new rules on air pollution.
And retiring Whip John Randall tells us John Bercow "goes overly partisan ... which is untenable for a speaker".
FRI 13:45 Codes that Changed the World (b05prkh7)
The Tower of Babel
Today's digital world is a reverse tower of Babel. It takes all sorts of different languages to build it. It is this phenomenon that Aleks Krotoski explores in this final edition.
FRI 14:00 The Archers (b05pqtgj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Thursday]
FRI 14:15 Drama (b05prkhb)
Mr Reasonable
by Fred D'Aguiar.
John Reasonable is a freed black slave, a skilled silk weaver, engaged by Shakespeare to make costumes for the Rose Theatre but he also has a jealous apprentice.
Director: David Hunter.
FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b05prkhg)
Forest of Bowland
Eric Robson chairs the programme from the Forest of Bowland. Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Anne Swithinbank answer horticultural questions from the audience.
Matthew Wilson visits Beth Chatto's garden in Essex to take some inspiration for a new season.
Produced by Dan Cocker
Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:45 Stories by Teffi (b05prkhj)
The Hat and My First Tolstoy
Two tales that deal crisply with the vanities of fashion and literary homage. Cautionary tales both!
A series of tales by Teffi - a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia - who's popular work has been re-published.
Reader: Hattie Morahan
Translated by Anne Marie Jackson.
Producer: Duncan Minshull
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015
FRI 16:00 Last Word (b05prkhm)
Frei Otto, Richie Benaud, Albert Maysles, Julio Cesar Strassera, Mary Clarke
Matthew Bannister on
The influential German architect Frei Otto, best known for his lightweight structures. Lords Foster and Rogers pay tribute.
The Australian cricketer and commentator Richie Benaud. David Gower recalls working with him.
The documentary director Albert Maysles who made a celebrated film about the Rolling Stones and 'Grey Gardens' about two eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy.
The Argentinian lawyer Julio Cesar Strassera who successfully prosecuted members of the country's military junta.
And Mary Clarke, the ballet critic who edited the Dancing Times.
FRI 16:30 Feedback (b05prkhr)
The Easter weekend is a prime opportunity for regular radio presenters to take a step out of the spotlight and into the sun for some rest and relaxation. But their stand-in presenters can be left to face the disappointment of an audience devoted to their favourite host. What are the challenges facing stand-ins and how do they overcome them? Lewis Carnie, the head of Radio 2 programmes, discusses how Sara Cox and Zoe Ball have filled in for leading men Chris Evans and Ken Bruce.
The spring breaks also produced trials for users of the BBC Radio iPlayer. As listeners got heavily engrossed in hair-raising dramas and eye-opening documentaries - they were left hanging mid-sentence as iPlayer Radio failed to give them the last few minutes of the programme. The General Manager for Audience Facing Services at BBC Future Media, Andrew Scott, clarifies what happened and how he is working to prevent future failings.
And in the election campaign coverage, BBC local radio has launched a series of 170 debates taking place across the country. David Holdsworth, the controller of English Regions, explains why issues affecting smaller communities are still key to political coverage. Station Editor David Harvey outlines how Radio Cambridgeshire is reflecting its listeners' main concerns. And, behind the scenes at BBC Essex's first local debate, producer Mark Syred lets listeners shine a light on what they see as the biggest question in their community.
Producer: Karen Pirie
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 16:56 The Listening Project (b05prkht)
Jo and Hayley - Accepting Fate
Fi Glover introduces a mother of two sons with a rare genetic disorder, CDG1a, who has set up a charity she founded to help parents like herself, discussing life with a friend who works for the charity.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
FRI 17:00 PM (b05prkhy)
Eddie Mair presents interviews, context and analysis.
FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b05pkm13)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers (b05prpcq)
Series 14
Episode 1
The topical impressions show returns just in time to reflect the build up to one of the most important and incisive votes for decades. Will Austria win again or does Britain's Electro Velvet stand a chance? Satire meets silliness in the flagship comedy for hard working families up and down the country.
Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis MacLeod, Debra Stephenson.
Producer: Bill Dare.
FRI 19:00 The Archers (b05prpph)
Shula and Alistair spot Dan in the passing out parade, and are very impressed with the ceremony. They are especially proud when Dan's platoon commander praises Dan's leadership skills. He congratulates them on their impressive son.
David and Ruth watch the video of the cows going out that Pip has made for the SAVE website. Along with Josh's footage of the flood, they think it would be a good idea to build it up to make a 'year in the life'.
Shula and Alistair talk over the change in Dan since he joined up a year ago and how much he has blossomed and loves what he's doing. Alistair wonders if he is right to look for new premises for his surgery. Perhaps he'd be better joining a larger practice in view of the way the business was struggling before the flooding.
Dan asks his mother what's wrong. Shula mentions having met an old friend this week. She wonders whether she has made the right decisions in her life. Dan's positive, though. This is a whole new chapter for Shula - and for Dad. Life isn't over yet, surely.
FRI 19:16 Front Row (b05q4m1h)
Michael Horovitz, The Jinx, Drone Warfare, Download Dead?
In the week he turns 80, John Wilson talks to the poet who helped start the counter-culture revolution in the UK, Michael Horovitz.
Boyd Hilton reviews The Jinx, a controversial 6-part HBO documentary made by Andrew Jarecki which secures what sounds like a confession to murder from its subject, Robert Durst, heir of a US property developer family.
As two films examining the impact of drone warfare are released, directors Andrew Niccol and Tonje Hessen Schei consider why the subject is proving such fertile territory for artists and storytellers.
And is the download dead? With the arrival of paid for streaming services from Youtube, Jay Z's Tidal, and Apple's Beats Music launching later in the year, music industry executive Stephen Budd looks at the evidence.
Producer: Craig Templeton Smith
FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b05pr81p)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b05prq80)
Paddy Ashdown, Hilary Benn, Caroline Lucas, Grant Shapps
Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Totnes. On the panel: former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown; shadow secretary of state for comumities and local government, Hilary Benn; former leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas; chairman of the Conservative Party, Grant Shapps.
Produced by Emma Campbell.
FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b05prq82)
Life's a Selfie
Howard Jacobson explains why he dislikes the narcissism of the selfie.
"It's always possible that there's some Rembrandt of the selfie out there, using his 'phone to investigate the ravages of age, the incursions of melancholy, and even the psychology of self-obsession itself, but commonly the selfie performs a less self-critical function, putting the self at the centre of everything we see, marking the landscape with our faces, as though the only possible interest of the outside world is that we're in it."
Producer: Sheila Cook.
FRI 21:00 A History of Ideas (b05prq84)
Omnibus
What Is Justice?
A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in many voices.
Each week Melvyn is joined by four guests with different backgrounds to discuss a really big question. This week they're tackling the question 'What is Justice?'.
Helping him answer it are lawyer Harry Potter, philosopher Angie Hobbs, criminologist David Wilson, and the historian Alice Taylor. Between them they will dismantle the idea of deterrence, investigate civil disobedience, tackle how to build a just society, and look at how this has been done throughout history. Then each of them attempt to take us further into the history of ideas about justice, with programmes of their own. This Omnibus edition has all five programmes together.
FRI 21:58 Weather (b05pkm17)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b05prq86)
Leading aid agency abandons Frontex rescue mission for migrants
Medecins Sans Frontieres launches its own search and rescue mission
FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b05prq88)
The Ladies of the House
Episode 10
The story turns full circle as we discover what befell the inhabitants of the house in Primrose Hill. The final instalment of Molly McGrann's novel exploring the fallout from the discovery of a man's double life.
Marie's telephone harassment - and the threat of eviction - proves too much for Joseph, while Rita and Annetta are overwhelmed by memories from the past.
Read by Susan Jameson
Written by Molly McGrann
Abridged by Robin Brooks
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron
Theme music: Track 16, "Patterns"
CD: Human Behaviour
Label: BBC Production Music BBCPM029.
FRI 23:00 Great Lives (b05pn678)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 on Tuesday]
FRI 23:27 Good Omens (b04vjll9)
Episode 5
The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse assemble and set off for Lower Tadfield, while Aziraphale finds himself inhabiting a most unexpected host body.
With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap, this is the first ever dramatisation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens.
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling.
Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly where the impending Apocalypse will take place.
Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.
Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself.
There's just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him...
Crowley ...... Peter Serafinowicz
Aziraphale ...... Mark Heap
Agnes Nutter ...... Josie Lawrence
Anathema Device ...... Charlotte Ritchie
Newton Pulsifer ...... Colin Morgan
Madame Tracy ...... Julia Deakin
War ...... Rachael Stirling
Famine ...... Paterson Joseph
Pollution ...... Harry Lloyd
Death ...... Jim Norton
Big Ted ...... Mitch Benn
Scuzz ...... Mark Benton
Pigbog ...... Arsher Ali
Greaser ...... Ben Crowe
Tyler ...... Andy Secombe
Mrs Omerod ...... Marcella Riordan
Julia ...... Tracy Wiles
Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs.
Producer: Heather Larmour.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014.
FRI 23:55 The Listening Project (b05prq8b)
Gill and Deb - Birth Partners
Fi Glover with a conversation between friends who share a special connection which was strengthened when one supported the other through the birth of her daughter, 13 years ago.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 MON (b05pmpdt)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 MON (b05pmpdt)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 TUE (b05pn3t2)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 TUE (b05pn3t2)
15 Minute Drama
10:41 WED (b05pntys)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 WED (b05pntys)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 THU (b05rhvhs)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 THU (b05rhvhs)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 FRI (b05pr81p)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 FRI (b05pr81p)
3D Bioprinting
11:00 TUE (b05pn3t4)
A History of Ideas
12:04 MON (b05pmpdy)
A History of Ideas
12:04 TUE (b05pn3t8)
A History of Ideas
12:04 WED (b05pnv94)
A History of Ideas
12:04 THU (b05pqskp)
A History of Ideas
12:04 FRI (b05prkh1)
A History of Ideas
21:00 FRI (b05prq84)
A Point of View
20:50 FRI (b05prq82)
AA: America's Gift to the World
20:00 MON (b05pmrv0)
All in the Mind
21:00 TUE (b05pnsrd)
All in the Mind
15:30 WED (b05pnsrd)
Any Answers?
14:00 SAT (b05pbwjw)
Any Questions?
13:10 SAT (b05ny7p7)
Any Questions?
20:00 FRI (b05prq80)
Archive on 4
20:00 SAT (b05pbxqg)
BBC Inside Science
16:30 THU (b05pqtgd)
BBC Inside Science
21:02 THU (b05pqtgd)
Ballads of Thin Men
00:30 SUN (b0112fnt)
Bells on Sunday
05:43 SUN (b05pkxyz)
Bells on Sunday
00:45 MON (b05pkxyz)
Beyond Belief
16:30 MON (b05pmrtp)
Billie Holiday: Fine and Mellow
11:30 TUE (b05pn3t6)
Blast of the Century
16:30 SUN (b05pl64f)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 MON (b05pmrv4)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 TUE (b05pnsrg)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 WED (b05pnw3c)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 THU (b05pqx2l)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 FRI (b05prq88)
Bookclub
16:00 SUN (b05pl64c)
Bookclub
15:30 THU (b05pl64c)
Brain of Britain
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Brain of Britain
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Broadcasting House
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Cells and Celluloid: A Science and Cinema Special
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Chat Show Roulette
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Children of the Scattered Homes
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Codes that Changed the World
13:45 MON (b05pmpf5)
Codes that Changed the World
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Codes that Changed the World
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Codes that Changed the World
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Codes that Changed the World
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Costing the Earth
15:30 TUE (b05pn674)
Costing the Earth
21:00 WED (b05pn674)
Crossing Continents
20:30 MON (b05nxh9x)
Crossing Continents
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Dead Ringers
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Dilemma
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Drama
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Drama
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Drama
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Drama
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Drama
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Drama
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Drama
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Ed Reardon's Week
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Farming Today
06:30 SAT (b05pbwjh)
Farming Today
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Farming Today
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Farming Today
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Farming Today
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Farming Today
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Feedback
20:00 SUN (b05pb06z)
Feedback
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Four Thought
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From Our Own Correspondent
11:30 SAT (b05nkf0m)
Front Row
19:16 MON (b05pmrty)
Front Row
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Front Row
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Front Row
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Front Row
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Gardeners' Question Time
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Gardeners' Question Time
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Good Omens
23:30 MON (b04knthd)
Good Omens
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Good Omens
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Good Omens
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Good Omens
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Great Lives
16:30 TUE (b05pn678)
Great Lives
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In Business
21:30 SUN (b05nxn0g)
In Business
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In Our Time
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In Our Time
21:30 THU (b05pqsk4)
In Touch
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Inside the Sex Offenders' Prison
17:00 SUN (b05nvfr9)
Is Cancer Money Well Spent?
20:00 TUE (b05pnsr8)
It's All About the Bass: Carol Kaye at 80
15:30 SAT (b05nk25s)
Jigsaw
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
19:16 SUN (b01n6sjq)
Just a Minute
12:04 SUN (b05nt9bf)
Landmark Poetics
23:30 SAT (b05nsgc2)
Landmarks, by Robert Macfarlane
00:30 SAT (b05pr507)
Last Word
20:30 SUN (b05pbn7z)
Last Word
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Liars' League
19:45 SUN (b05pl72c)
Lives in a Landscape
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Loose Ends
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midweek
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Midweek
21:30 WED (b05pntyl)
Minecraft: More than a Game
22:30 SAT (b05mqpgl)
Money Box Live
15:00 WED (b05pnvqc)
Money Box
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Money Box
21:00 SUN (b05pbwjt)
My Teenage Diary
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Headlines
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News Summary
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News and Papers
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News and Papers
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News and Papers
08:00 SUN (b05pklrs)
News and Weather
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News
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One to One
09:30 TUE (b05pn3sw)
Open Country
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Open Country
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PM
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PM
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PM
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PM
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Paul Temple
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Pick of the Week
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Prayer for the Day
05:43 SAT (b05ny7v7)
Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Profile
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Profile
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Profile
17:40 SUN (b05pbxk0)
Radio 4 Appeal
07:54 SUN (b05pkxz7)
Radio 4 Appeal
21:26 SUN (b05pkxz7)
Radio 4 Appeal
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Saturday Drama
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Saturday Live
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Saturday Review
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SAT (b05nkf06)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 MON (b05pkltb)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 THU (b05pklz1)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
05:20 SAT (b05nkf08)
Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Short Cuts
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
18:00 FRI (b05pkm13)
Something Understood
06:05 SUN (b05pkxz1)
Something Understood
23:30 SUN (b05pkxz1)
Start the Week
09:00 MON (b05plghp)
Start the Week
21:30 MON (b05plghp)
Stories by Teffi
15:45 FRI (b05prkhj)
Sunday Worship
08:10 SUN (b05pkz7r)
Sunday
07:10 SUN (b05pkxz5)
Sunrise Service
06:35 SUN (b05pkxz3)
Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!
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The Archers Omnibus
10:00 SUN (b05pl2rn)
The Archers
19:00 SUN (b05pl729)
The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
14:00 FRI (b05pqtgj)
The Archers
19:00 FRI (b05prpph)
The Casebook of Max and Ivan
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The Faith of Children or Kumbayah and All That
11:00 MON (b05pmpdw)
The Film Programme
16:00 THU (b05pqtg8)
The Food Programme
12:32 SUN (b05pl2rs)
The Food Programme
15:30 MON (b05pl2rs)
The Forum
11:00 SAT (b05pbwjr)
The Human Zoo
20:00 WED (b05pnw2x)
The Lariam Legacy
21:00 MON (b05nv242)
The Life Scientific
09:00 TUE (b05pmvl8)
The Life Scientific
21:30 TUE (b05pmvl8)
The Listening Project
14:45 SUN (b05pl645)
The Listening Project
10:56 WED (b05pntyv)
The Listening Project
16:56 FRI (b05prkht)
The Listening Project
23:55 FRI (b05prq8b)
The Media Show
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The Music Teacher
23:15 WED (b039q5ft)
The News Quiz
12:30 SAT (b05ny7p3)
The Report
20:00 THU (b05pqx2d)
The Reunion
11:16 SUN (b05pl2rq)
The Reunion
09:00 FRI (b05pl2rq)
The Sound of Space
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The Story of Alice
09:45 MON (b05qfj15)
The Story of Alice
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The Story of Alice
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The Story of Alice
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The Story of Alice
09:45 WED (b05qt15c)
The Story of Alice
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The Story of Alice
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The Story of Alice
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The Story of Alice
09:45 FRI (b05qt8j8)
The World This Weekend
13:00 SUN (b05pl2rv)
The World Tonight
22:00 MON (b05pmrv2)
The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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Thinking Allowed
00:15 MON (b05nvjhp)
Thinking Allowed
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This Is Me Totally Sausage
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Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler
18:30 WED (b05pnw2q)
Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
05:58 FRI (b03zrccd)
Twin Peaks
16:00 MON (b05pktlc)
Ursula Le Guin at 85
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Ways of Thinking
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Weather
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Weather
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Westminster Hour
22:00 SUN (b05pl7zj)
What the Papers Say
22:45 SUN (b05pl7zl)
When the Dog Dies
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Witness
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Word of Mouth
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World at One
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World at One
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World at One
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World at One
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World at One
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You and Yours
12:16 MON (b05pmpf0)
You and Yours
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You and Yours
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You and Yours
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You and Yours
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